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submitted 1 month ago by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Only in an age of no books could this religion flourish

I'd like to point out that Greece and Rome were absolutely packed with knowledge and curiosity... until monotheism showed up.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

How did it get from that point to the "Dark Ages", where peasants were kept in ignorance and only the priests could read?

I'm not arguing, honest question

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Shortly? They were polytheists. Christians weren't.

"The Paradox of Tolerance, articulated by philosopher Karl Popper, argues that unlimited tolerance leads to the disappearance of tolerance because if a tolerant society tolerates the intolerant, the intolerant will eventually destroy the tolerant, ending tolerance itself. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism#Associations_with_violence

I know mostly not my own word but should be plenty of explanation my hands are freezing ask more if you feel like it